April 23, 2020

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How You Can Give & Get Support

If you are looking for ways to support Foote community members in need during this challenging time—or if you are in need of support yourself—we invite you to connect with our new support service, The Lift at Foote School.

The Lift at Foote School is confidentially linking families in need of a support service with a family who is in a position to help. Some examples might include picking up groceries and delivering them outside the home, cooking a meal, running an errand, sewing masks, or any number of other ways we can lift each other up.

If you would like to request support, or volunteer to provide it, please email thelift@footeschool.org. Thank you!

Parent Reminder

No School Tomorrow

There will be no school / distance learning tomorrow, Friday, April 24, so the faculty and staff can hold a professional development day.

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Share Your Distance Learning Pics

Parents are invited to share photos, videos, anecdotes, screenshots, examples of their children's work, etc. that will be shared in the weekly e-newsletter, our website and social media.

Share distance learning stories on your own social media accounts using the hashtag #FooteLearns to connect with others in our community.

Thank you for helping us to document this unusual chapter in Foote School's history!

Share a Photo, Video or Story

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Distance Learning Resource Pages

If you are looking for information related to

Distance Learning on our website, you can find it on the following pages:

Distance Learning Main Page
Distance Learning for Grades K–5
Distance Learning for Grades 6–9
Foote's Response to COVID-19
Special COVID-19 Fund
Submit photos or videos of your distance learning
If you need tech support, please email the Foote Help Desk at helpdesk@footeschool.org.

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Isabella Mendes Performance

In case you missed Tuesday's performance and talk by Brazilian singer-songwriter Isabella Mendes, you can watch video of the event. Thanks to Isabella and to everyone who joined for this online community gathering!

Special thanks to the organizing sponsor, MOSAIC (Multicultural, Open-Minded, Supportive, Accepting, Inclusive Community), namely Preethi Varghese-Joseph, Susan Keegan, Lynne Banta, Melissa Castleman, Carol Poling, Kiran Zaman, Zehra Patwa, Jody Abzug, Joe LaMacchia and Pam Fortin.

Isabella Mendes Performance

PTC News

Faculty Appreciation Breakfast Goes Mobile!

This year the PTC is taking our annual faculty appreciation breakfast on the road! Thanks to the chairs of this beloved event, Duffy Mudry and Mary Rinaldi with Annette Roberts, our faculty & staff will receive a lovely reminder of how much they are appreciated.

The tireless dedication and herculean efforts of our Foote teachers make this event all the more special and important this spring. The PTC is working to organize the delivery of breakfast food mixes, treats and flowers to all faculty & staff (and gift cards to those teachers who are not local). Please email ptc@footeschool.org to learn more.

The PTC is also working to coordinate other ways to express appreciation for our teachers as part of teacher appreciation week (May 4-8) and through the end of the year. Some ideas such as a virtual "wall" of thanks, or videos, are being developed. Stay tuned!

Curriculum Close-Up

Channeling Andy Goldsworthy

Second graders have been busy learning about environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy and creating their own masterpieces using natural materials. "Andy Goldsworthy doesn't worry about how many people will see his creations," says Grade 2 teacher Margy Lamere. "He creates at sites where he feels inspired. He is in it purely for creative joy and sense of satisfaction." Like the artist himself, Margy says second graders showed "great creativity in their use of natural materials and a wide range of artistic forms."

"His style went well with our themes of reusing materials, like our trash art for Columbus House and our recycled superhero capes made from old tablecloths," says Margy, "and it was a way to get all second graders outside and active!" Click below for a short video highlighting the project.

Andy Goldsworthy Creations

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Distance Learning Bloopers

Distance learning isn't without its snafus. While Foote teachers may appear super-human in their ability to connect with children, juggle demands and deliver an engaging curriculum online, they too are only mortals.

Whether it's temperamental technology or a feisty feline, distance learning lessons don't always go exactly as planned, as evidenced by these teacher-submitted bloopers! It's just another way that our wonderful teachers help children learn that it's okay to make mistakes.

Distance Learning Bloopers